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Sunday, July 10, 2016

--the FBI's scathing report, of course, disqualifies Hillary
Clinton from any position that requires any kind of security clearance.

"All is for the best, in the best of all possible worlds" was a common refrain in Voltaire's Candide,
and the context is ridicule of Leibnizian optimism. James Comey's
assessment of Hillary Clinton and her private E-mail service is, in
contrast, the worst of all possible worlds for her campaign.

Comey's decision to not recommend criminal prosecution would have been good news for Hillary Clinton in the absence of Bill Clinton's meeting with Loretta Lynch, along with Hillary's own implied promise to reappoint Lynch
as Attorney General (but only, of course, if she wins the election). As
matters stand, these actions come across, rightly or wrongly, as
obstruction of justice through de facto bribery
of the Attorney General. What else should we call it when the subject
of a criminal investigation, or a person acting on her behalf, offers a
high-profile job to the prosecutor who is in charge of the
investigation? It is, at the very least, a conflict of interest for
Lynch.

Bill
Clinton said that he and Lynch talked about golf and grandchildren but,
when the prominent and powerful husband of the subject of a criminal
investigation meets privately with the chief prosecutor, this perception
of impropriety is unavoidable--and both parties to the conversation
knew it.

The lack of charges also reinforces the perception, as depicted in a popular meme that features Hillary Clinton, "Silly Americans; laws are for poor people."via SIZZLE

Recall also that Barack Obama got off with a warning for illegal gambling to fund his 2008 campaign while a local sports bar
owner got a felony record for similar conduct, and had to pay $100,000
to avoid losing his bar. Evidence that there is one set of laws for the
high and mighty, and another set for the commoners and the peasants,
should be repugnant to political liberals and conservatives alike. The
rest of the FBI's scathing report, of course, disqualifies Hillary
Clinton from any position that requires any kind of security clearance.

FBI: Hillary Clinton is Not Qualified to Hold a Security Clearance

Our
country has only recently faced situations in which a presidential
candidate might not meet the security-related requirements of the job.
Consider, for example, the Nuclear Weapon Personnel Reliability Program. (Emphasis is mine.)

Except
for the category of individuals identified in subparagraph
B.2.a.(2)(a), above, or otherwise provided in this Directive, any
pre-Service use, admitted or otherwise discovered, of illicit drugs such
as heroin, heroin derivatives, cocaine, "crack," phencyclidine (PCP),
lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), ecstasy," or other "designer" drugs,
amphetamines, barbiturates, or other narcotic drugs not prescribed by
proper medical authorities, and anabolic steroids shall render an
individual ineligible for admission to or retention in PRP duties. The
individual shall not be certified into the program or shall be
permanently decertified, and those actions shall be made a matter of
permanent record.

Had
Barack Obama's admitted past use of hard drugs (cocaine) taken place
after the issuance of this directive (1995), he would be ineligible to
control nuclear weapons under any circumstances. This would in turn
render him ineligible to be President. James Comey's report
creates, similarly, an almost unprecedented situation in which a
Presidential candidate is not qualified for even a basic security
clearance, which also is a prerequisite for the office in question
(emphasis is mine).

Although
we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues
intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified
information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.For
example, seven e-mail chains concern matters that were classified at
the Top Secret/Special Access Program level when they were sent and
received. These chains involved Secretary Clinton both sending e-mails
about those matters and receiving e-mails from others about the same
matters. There is evidence to support a conclusion that any
reasonable person in Secretary Clinton’s position, or in the position of
those government employees with whom she was corresponding about these
matters, should have known that an unclassified system was no place for
that conversation. In addition to this highly sensitive information, we
also found information that was properly classified as Secret by the
U.S. Intelligence Community at the time it was discussed on e-mail (that
is, excluding the later “up-classified” e-mails).None
of these e-mails should have been on any kind of unclassified system,
but their presence is especially concerning because all of these e-mails
were housed on unclassified personal servers not even supported by
full-time security staff, like those found at Departments and Agencies
of the U.S. Government—or even with a commercial service like Gmail.…While not the focus of our investigation, we also developed evidence that the
security culture of the State Department in general, and with respect
to use of unclassified e-mail systems in particular, was generally
lacking in the kind of care for classified information found elsewhere
in the government.With
respect to potential computer intrusion by hostile actors, we did not
find direct evidence that Secretary Clinton’s personal e-mail domain, in
its various configurations since 2009, was successfully hacked. But,
given the nature of the system and of the actors potentially involved,
we assess that we would be unlikely to see such direct evidence. We
do assess that hostile actors gained access to the private commercial
e-mail accounts of people with whom Secretary Clinton was in regular
contact from her personal account.…To
be clear, this is not to suggest that in similar circumstances, a
person who engaged in this activity would face no consequences. To the
contrary, those individuals are often subject to security or
administrative sanctions. But that is not what we are deciding now.

The
obvious "security or administrative sanctions" in question would of
course consist in loss of security clearances. Comey's report is
therefore, despite lack of a recommendation for criminal prosecution,
the worst of all possible worlds for Hillary Clinton. The key takeaways
and talking points are as follows:

(1)
Bill Clinton's private meeting with Attorney General Lynch, and Hillary
Clinton's implied promise to reappoint Lynch as Attorney General, leave
an unavoidable perception of obstruction of justice or a conflict of
interest for Lynch at the very least.

(2) The fact that a Navy petty officer, Kristian Saucier,
is facing prison and a dishonorable discharge for merely taking
pictures in a nuclear submarine, while Hillary Clinton avoids
prosecution for mishandling classified information, underscores the
perception that there is one set of laws for ordinary people and another
for the Clintons and Barack Obama.

(3)
The FBI's scathing report makes it unequivocally clear that Hillary
Clinton is grossly unqualified to hold a security clearance, and is
therefore not qualified for any office or position that requires one.

William
A. Levinson is the author of several books on business management
including content on organizational psychology, as well as manufacturing
productivity and quality.

Source: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/07/fbi_report_worst_of_all_possible_worlds_for_hillary_clinton.html Follow Middle East and Terrorism on TwitterCopyright - Original materials copyright (c) by the authors.